Rover P4 90

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Incredibly strong, smooth and comfortable, the Rover P4 is one of the best-made cars ever to be mass produced on these shores.

In production from 1949 until 1964, it came in a bewildering number of versions but all were excellent cars, furnished to a very high standard with plenty of wood and leather, that were enormously popular with the middle class motorist. Introduced alongside the four-cylinder Rover P4 60 in 1953, the P4 90 had a more-powerful 2.6-litre six-cylinder engine that produced a respectable 90bhp and drove through a four-speed manual gearbox with synchromesh on the top three gears.

The doors, boot and bonnet were in aluminium with the rest of the body in steel. The cars had a separate chassis with independent suspension by coil springs at the front and a live axle with half-elliptic leaf springs at the rear. Brakes were fully hydraulic drums all round. Testing the 90 in 1954, The Motor magazine recorded a top speed of 90mph and acceleration from 0-60mph in 18.9 seconds. When it was replaced by the P4 100 in 1959, 35,903 had been produced.

First registered in January 1955, this stunning P4 has spent most of its life in sunny Australia, hence the excellent state of preservation today. Since returning to these shores in May 2008 it has only covered some 3,500 fine weather miles and remains in lovely condition throughout. Driven over 100 miles to the sale with no issues whatsoever, it comes with an owner’s handbook and four old MOTs from 2009 to 2013, the last having no advisories.